Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 102, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 September 1923 — Page 1

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RED CROSS . QUOTA HALF SUBSCRIBED Fortune Sends Check for $25,000 to Washington Headquarters, DRIVE IS CONTINUED Contributions From Citizens Are Still Pouring Into Office Here, A check for $25,000, half of the Indianapolis quota of the Japanese relief fund of the American Red Cross, was mailed to 'Washington today by William Fortune, chairman of the Indianapolis chapter. The amount was raised in seven days. N The following telegram was sent to Mrs. John Allen Daugherty, manager of the Washington division, by Fortune: “We are today forwarding a check for $25,000 representing voluntary contributions from a large number of our people in amounts ranging from $1 to SI,OOO each, for the relief of sufferers in stricken Japan. This comes wholly from sympathetic volition of our people. We hope to receive our quota of the Red Cross fund from these voluntary offerings of people who give because they want to help others who are in dire distress. We are not conducting a campaign of personal solicitation, but we are depending on our newspapers instead. We have faith that our people will fulfill expectations. The response from Indianapolis to the appeal of President Coolidge and the Red Cross will come voluntarily from sympathetic and generous people.” Ninety-nine per cent of the contributions mailed to Red Cross head quarters are written on a newspaper contribution blank, Fortune said. “This shows that the people of Indianapolis are giving measure voluntarily,” Fortune said. Prompt and generous giving will mean that Indianapolis will be classed among the cities filling their quotas first. Since the Red Cross has organized no soliciting campaign the matter of meeting Indianapolis’ quota of $50,000 is left entirely to the individual. "What a splendid thing it would be if Indianapolis could, out of voluntary offerings, make up the total which the American Red Cross has assigned it,’’ said Fortune. “Better to have it that way than to get two or three times the quota by organized soliciting, f'.r what is coming now is voluntary ex pression of the wish to help millions of homeless people who have been stricken by a great calamity.” New York Organized “Other cities, some of them much larger than Indianapolis, have felt the necessity of organizing their ■Solicitation. New York did that and (Continued on Page 11) List of today’s local contributors to Red Cross Japan Relief fund will be found on page 2.

QUAKE SUFFERERS NUMBER 1,356,470 Osaka Rapidly Becoming Center of Japanese Official and Business Life —Supplies Arrive at Yokohama,

By MOTTO TAKATA (Assistant Foreign Editor Osaka Mainchi) ("Written for the United Press) OSAKA, Sept. B.—Japan's earthquake sufferers today number 1,356,470. An official announcement to this effect has been issued in Osaka, which, the confusion and devastation In Tokio is rapidly becoming the center of Japanese official and business life. The same announcement says 3 1 6,078 houses were destroyed by Saturday’s shocks and the tidal wave and fires that followed. Death Toll 50,000 Tt is stated it is still impossible to estimate accurately the number of dead, but few official figures indicate a loss of more than 50.000 lives in Tokio and Yokohama combined. Reports from outlying districts will be slow in coming in. Yokohama apparently has been spared the ravages of cholera, thus far at least. Alarming reports of the plague reched here yesterday but these were not followed by any further dispatches. Relief work goes on; the fires are out; the earth rumblings have largelysubsided, but still there are places where knockings and mutterings beneath the surface keep inhabitants who lived through the great disaster, in a state of perpeual terror. Villages Lire in Fear The village of Gotemba, near the scene of the disaster at the Fuji spinning mills which collapsed in Saturday’s quake and buried hundreds of girl employes in the ruins, is a strange sight these days. "Word coming from the town, which te largely in ruins, says when occasional rumblings occur, the population, fearing Fuji Is about to erupt, rush

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Times Starts Search for Americans The Times today was asked to assist in the search for two Indiana missionaries believed to have been in Tokio during the earthquake. The missionaries are the Rev. and Mrs. Fred Abel, Terre Haute. They represent the Penticost Bands of the World. The request for assistance was made by F. B. Whistler, president of the mission board of the organization. Information furnished by Whistler was forwarded to the State department immediately. That department will get in touch with representatives in Tokio.

COUNCIL REMOVES lASI OBSTRUCTION TO ORPHANS’ HOME Ordinance Setting Aside $140,000 From County General Fund Passed, An ordinance setting aside $140,000 out of the general county fund to construct a colored orphans’ home at Twenty-Fifth St. and Keystone Ave. was passed this morning by the Ma non County council, which adjourned shortly afterward. The moiAv to build the home will be put in the general fund when the sale of eighteen acres of county land, the site of the old workhouse at Twenty-First St. and Northwestern Ave., to the Fairbanks-Morse Com pany is completed. The w'orkhouse land was-sold Aug. 27 by county commissioners for $10.5000, the price ftxeq by the county council, over the protest of Leo K. Fesler. county auditor, who said that $60,000 was more than enough. The home will be cottage type, and accommodate 120 children. It will he built of brick, with boys in one wing and girls in the other, according to p'ans adopted by the county commissioners and shown the council. The council held up the appropriation until commissioners adopted plans, so councilmen “could know where money was going. ’* Bids will be advertised immediately.

More Gifts Additional gifts for the Red Cross Japanese relief fund have been received by The Times and sent to the local chapter of the Red Cross. The givers: Mazie Spencer, $1.25: Rev. J. W. Williams. $5: Mrs. George Collings, st: James W. Shank, $10; R. C. Vermillion, $1; Fred R. Bonifield. $5.

from what remains of their houses. Over their heads they hold doors from tumbled dwellings and pieces of corrugated iron to protect themselves from showers of burning ashes. Foreigners report there is little reason for real apprehension. The earthquake, it has been learned, was the dying convulsion of the great volcano of Oshima, lying off the coast nar Yokohama. The volcano, simultaneously with the earthquake, burst forth into terrific eruption, spreading destruction (Continued on Page 11) HARDING ESTATE IS VALUED AT $600,000 Relatives and Chorehes Are Principal Beneficiaries in Will. By Uni Vd Press MARION, Ohio, Sept. B.—Marion business men and friends of the late President Warren G. Harding, whose will was filed for probate Friday, estimated today the estate is worth 8600.000. Relatives, his home town and local churches were the principal beneficiaries. VETERINARY TREATS BOY Owners of Dog Which Bit Youngster Send Horse Doctor. Omer Surface. 2225 Oscar St., was bitten by a dog today whose owners sent a veterinary doctor to treat him, according to police. Eater city ambulance doctors gave medical aid. The identity of the owners of the dog and the veterinary was not learned. HOURLY TEMPERATURE fit. m 57 10 a. m 69 7 a. m 59 11 a. m. 72 8 a. m 64 12 (noon) 72 9 a, m 8 1 p. m 75

COUCHGETS 2-WHRS FOR FRAUD / Statehouse Custodian Pleads Guilty to Charge of Shortage, PRESENTED FALSE CLAIMS Resignation Asked When Absence of SIO,OOO in Accounts Is Discovered, Roy Couch. 35, former custodian of the State House, was sentenced to serve two to fourteen years in the State prison today on a plea of guilty to a charge of presenting false claims. According to charges. Couch wa short about SIO,OOO in his accounts as custodian of the Statehouse. He was asked to resign when the shortage was revealed. Couch also was charged with embezzlement. but this charge was dropped on his plea of guilty. Couch was appointed custodian at the beginning of the McCray administration. His home was at Frankfort. CIRCUS INJURY IS FATALTO BOY, 16 Youth Dies at Local Hospital After Truck Accident, Thomas Sullivan, 16 of 3069 Sev-enty-Ninth St,, Cleveland, Qhio, died at the Methodist Hospital today from internal injuries and crushed lege re eeived when a R G Barnes Circus irfc-k ran at VVhlteland, Ind., Thursday. Sullivan was traveling with the circus. The boy was brought to the hos pital by a stranger who could give no details. Deputy Coroner W. A. Doeppers ordered the body held until word Is received from relatives in Cleveland. Attempts are being made to connect with headquarters of the circus at Palms, Cal.

SUIT FILED IN RAIL-AUTO CRASH William Krieger Asks $60,000 From Railroads, Total damages of $60,000 is asked from the Big Four and Belt Railroads by Mr. and Mrs. William E. Krieger, 1402 N. Illinois at., as a result of a collision between the Krieger automobile and a Big Four train on May 23. Personal injuries are cited by Krieger, an undertaker, as basis for $25,000 asked for himself. He also asks SIO,OOO injuries to his wife. The latter asked $25,000 damages on her own, behalf. The accident occurred at the Belt Railroad crossing on W. Washington St. The flagman and train crew are made co-defendants. MISSING SHIP IS SAFE Five Others Overdue, However, Are - Believed Ixst in Pacific. Bu United Pre*x SAN FRANCISCO Sept. B.—The motorship Kennecott of the Alaska Steamship Company, feared lost during tidal wave in Yokohama harbor, is safe, a, dispatch from Kobe stated today. The vessel arrived at Kobe Tuesday undamaged. Five other vessels from ninety to 100 days overdue, including the Wewalona and the West Jena are feared lost.

MAN HELD AS ‘LOVE PIRATE’

EOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 8. —ljove letters from women in various parts of the country' discussing matrimony, a "love diary” giving the final cial rating and state of health of an "heiress list” and other strange documents were found by police who raided the rooms of a man suspected of being Dr. Percival Alien. The suspect is held to face a murder charge arising from the poisoning in Seattle of pretty' Anna Danielson, wealthy Minneapolis girl. He refuses to talk about the charge or the diary', or police allegations he courted Ellen Poss of Rochester, Minn., while having been through a marriage ceremony with Beele Parker, a preacher’s daughter of Evansville, Wis. ce said they also discovered

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, SEPT. 8, 1923

Little ‘Jackie Coogans’ in Movie Tell Story for Fund. ■- - If **Np ■Main oHSy* v jsk?.v: •’ < -

ABOVE—"BABY BOARDERS” IN THE SUPERVISED FAMILY WELFARE FUND. BELOW—RAYMOND OLIVE OF THE BOYS’ CLUB. THEY ARE SHOWN AS THEY APPEAR IN THE COMMUNITY FUND MOVIE.

Amateur actors, most of them boys and girls not yet graduated in their teens, play parts in the onereel motion picture, “The Kindness Cup,” which the Community F’und is presenting before clubs and churches this fail in preparation for the annua! campaign. All the scenes were taken locally by the Rliodes-Chouinard Motion Picture Company, while all faces are those of Indianapolis folk as the camera man found them among the varied welfare organizations sharing in the fund. Requests to wit ness whe picture are being filled daily by the speakers’ bureau of the Community Fund at the new campaign headquarters, 765 Century Bldg.

BRICKS ARE HURLED INTO STORE WINDOW Parade of 200 Machines Is Broken Up and One Arrest Made by Police in Night’s Activities,

One window containing a fiery cross was smashed, an unsuccessful effort was made to smash another, an at tempted parade was broken up and one arrest was made by the police Friday night. Five bricks were hurled through the window of the 11. A. Weaver Furniture Company, 229 W. Washington St. The police were told an automobile stopped in front of the store and the bricks were thrown by the occupant. They were tojd there was a small cross in the window. T. J. Henry, manager of the Amer INDUSTRY TO BE AIDED Chamber of Commerce Manufacturers’ Committee Active. Inaugurating a condition of increased helpfulness among Indianapolis industries, the manufacturers' committee of the Chamber of Commerce has voted unanimously to institute a system which will cement relationship between industrial firms of the city. The committee, consisting of fifly members, will be divided into groups of three for the purpose of making personal calls on all the manufacturers to ascertain how the committee as a whole might render service to them. B °Y FAIR VISITOR MISSING Son of John A. McLain Fails to Return Home Friday Night. John A. McLain. 2716 N. Meridian St., asked police today tt> search for his son. Herbert, 13, who went to the fair Friday night and did not return. Description: Four feet 8 inches tall; weight, 80 pounds; light hair, blue eyes, wearing glasses, tan Boy Scout shirt, gray trousers, tan shoes, black cap.

what is believed to be a. form letter used in proposing to girls on the "heiress list.” This list contained the names of girls with the amount of their wealth, health and pulchritude. For instance: "She has SIO,OO0 —will get $500,000 more when father dies." After the names of some of the girls, although they were listed as "good looker" would be the words “no means," "cold proposition,” “no good," "does not answer letters.” One letter written to the suspect offered! him $15,000 if he would marry the writer. Department of Justice agents also unearthed one of the suspect's letters which had not been mailed: "I note your application says you have no children and have $17,000. oh. my darling dear, how

ican Restaurant, 217 tS. Illinois St., told police a man In a taxicab threw an automobile jack at his window, but it was stopped by a post. An effort was made to stage a parade at Maple Rond Bldv., and Meridian St. Police reported 200 automobiles lined up in the boulevard and that they were dispersed. One man was arrested charged with having a red light on the front of his car Such lights are allowed only on police, fire and hospital automobiles, police say. The man gave his name a* Edward Janicke, 615 Terrace Ave. EGGS UP 3 CENTS AGAIN AT MARKET Humpty-Dumpty Doesn't Set an Example Here, Eggs took another jump in city market today. Selling at 36 cents a dozen Tht rsday, they appeared today at 39 cents at most of the stands. A few stands priced them at 38 cents, however. Home-grown oyster plant and water cress appeared today. Oyster plant sold at 8 1-3 cents apiece. Water cress was quoted at 15 cents a bunch. Endive was selling at 10 to 15 cents apiece. Lima beans were the same, at 3i cents a pound. Green beans were 15 censt. a pound, and wax beans, 20 cents. * Corn remained the same, at 30 cents a dozen.

X, wish I could be in your midst now and I am sure I could prove my worthiness.” By United Press MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept. W. —Dr. Percival V. Allen, alleged "love pirate” believed held in Los Angeles, has been a fugitive for six years. He escaped from a Seattle Jail in 1916 and has been the subject of an international hunt since. In July 1916 Allen “married” Anna Marie Danielson, a Minneapolis heiress. She died ten days later from strychnine poisoning in Seattle and Dr. Allen was arrested twice but escaped both times. Miss Danielson left an estate of $60,000 In Minnesota and lowa. It went to her brother. Allen was barred in participating in the settle-

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Lloyd George Says — ITALIANS PLAY BULLY ROLE IN GREEK EPISODE

■on ns mm ns Fills [IBS Poet Soldier Defends Static! on Greek Question and Upholds Action, By CAMELLO CIANFARA United Press Staff Correspondent. ROME, JSept. B.—“ Would America permit a number of foreigners to place a value of an offense against her dignity and her flag?” Premier Mussolini demanded in an interview on Italy’s attitude, granted the United Press just before he left for Milan to attend the Grand Prix automobile races. “Defense of the Leugue of Nations by a section of the press of a country which refused to join the league is strange, to say the least.” the Faseisti chieftain continued. The interview was Mussolini’s apology’ for Italy's stand. The premier showed plainly he felt American criticism of that attitude was unjustified. “I really am sorry,” be began, “that I have not the full text of the speech the then President Wilson delivered when bodies of sailors who fell at Vera Cruz after the Tampico incident arrived home. That speech was inspired hv the pride of a country fully conscious of her dignity and her mission in the world. “To that lection of the American press which is accusing Italy of imperialistic aims and of intimidating a weak power, 1 would reply using the same arguments President Wilson used in his message to Congress of April 20, 1914. He then said the manifest danger of the situation consisted in the that such an incident would grow worse, thus leading to armed conflict, but that redress such as Huerta should make would by attracting poular attention teach that the incident must not occur again. That situation was similar to ours. "When the brigand Poncho Villa fired against an American border town the United States did not hesitate to send across the Rio Grande a punitive expedition commanded by General Pershing. C'af*e Is Identical One “Now, with due proportion in the present case Italy finds herself in a situation identical with that in which the United States often found themselves before some republic of Central America. “There is nothing to warrant the belief Italy has unwarrantedly committed an act of violence agrainst Greece. For the last 100 years there has been an unlterrupted tradition in ItaloGreek friendship. There was no war from that, for independence in 1821 to that of 1897 in which some splendid Italian bloo*l was not shed with that of Greece. "The murder of the Italian commissioners was not an isolated case. The atmosphere in which it was committed had been prepared during many years by a bitter and unrelenting press campaign. “Do not tell me the Greek government was not an accomplice for, since 1918. Greece has established a censorship of a severity unknown in other countries. "Italy js not after adventures. She doesn’t want wars. She wants a safeguard to protect her honor and dignity in countries after crimes have been used as a shield for their territorial and demographic insignificance. “I have already outlined the reasons why the League of Nations Is incompetent. “Front Americans we only ask a little of that fair play and 'square dealing’ born in their hearts.”

FOUR GREEKS ARRESTED. By United Press CORFU, Sejlt. B.—ltalian carbineers today' arrested four Greek gendarmes caught in the act of attempting to land on the island. The Greeks deolared they had deserted from their rogiment at Epierus. FRANKFORT BOY KILLED Companion Hprt When Train Crashes Into Truck. lm Times Special FRANKFORT. Ind., Sep}. 8.-—Ever-ett Woofendale, 17, was fatally injured and Paul Johnson. 16, badly hurt when the truck in which they were riding was struck by a north-bound Monon passenger train. The boys were thrown forty feet and the truck demolished.

Former British Premier Declares Refusal of Paris and Rome to Refer Disputes to League Renders Versailles Pact Valueless, By DAVID LLOYD GEORGE Former British Prime Minister. Copyright, 1923, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. LONDON, Sept. B.—The shores of the Mediterranean have, from time immemorial, been the scene of eruptions and earthquakes. They generally break out without warning. Sometimes they are devastating in their effect, destroying life and property over wide areas and on a vast scale. Sometimes they provide brilliant spectacular display, terrifying in appearance but not causing much destruction. To which of these two categories does the last eruption of Mussolini belong? To drop hot cinders in the Balkans is a dangerous experiment. The soil is everywhere soaked with naphtha and it floats about in uncharted pools and runlets which easily catch fire. A cinder flung from Vienna started a conflagration which spreadover continents. That was only nine years ago. The ground is still hot—the smoke blinds and stifles. You canuot see clearly or breathe freely. Now and again there is a suspicious ruddiness in the banks of smoke, which proves that the fire is not yet out. .ind yet there are statesmen flinging burning faggotts about with reckless swagger. * The temper of Europe may be gauged from the reception accorded to these heedless pyrotechnics on the part of national leaders by their own countrymen. Every time it occurs, whether in France, Italy or Turkey, and whether it be Poincare, Mussolini or Mustapha Kemal who directs the show, applause greets the exhibition.

I remember the first days of the | Great War. There was not a be!-, ligerent capital where great and enthusiastic crowds did not parade the streets to cheer for war. In those j days, men did not know what war meant. Their conception of it was j formed from pictures of heroic—j-and always victorious—feats hung In na- | tional galleries and reproduced in the | form of cheap chromes, engravings erd prints which adorn the walls In | every cottage througout most lands. Multitudes Fill Graves j It used to be Raid that in wars one I lot cheered and the other fought. But 1 the cheering mobs who filled the streets that August were filling | trenches in September, and multii twdes were filling graves ere the year | was out. But when they cheered. I they had no realization of the actualities of war. They idealised it. They | only saw it in pictures. But the cheerers of today know j what war means. France lost well I over a million lives in the last fight. I Italy lost 600.000. and there are men Jn every workshop in both countries (who know something of the miseries (Continued on Page 7.) ‘CITY COURTEOUS' SLOGAN DE® D Advertising Club Starts Move for New By-Word, Efforts are being made by the Ad- | vertising Club of Indianapolis to have ! the city adopt the slogan, “Indian--Bpolls, the City Courteous.” it was ! announced today by Frank S. Chance, i president of the club and chairman | of the courtesy week committee, comI posed of representatives of the Cham- | her of Commerce, Hooeier Motor Club and Advertising Club, who promoted the courtesy campaign in Indianapolis during the State fair. “We want to be year round,” Chance said. "We not only want to be courteous to strangers and visitors, but also to ourselves, the residents of Indianapolis, our friends and neighbors. I believe the department stores, police, street car employees and all concerned profited admirably from this courtesy week campaign.” The “Why I Like Indianapolis” letter writing contest which was conducted in connection with courtesy week, closes Saturday, Sept. 15. All letters must be sent to'the Chamber of Commerce, 28 S. Meridian St. It is open to all residents of Indiana living outside of Indianapolis and Marion County.

To the American Red Cross, Headquarters Indianapolis Chapter, 409 Chamber of Commerce Building, Indianapolis, Ind.: I am sending you herewith my check for ($ ), payable to Frank D. Stalnaker, treasurer, as a contribution for the relief of sufferers from tJhe disaster in Japan. Name Street and Address City gndjState i^,..

Forecast FAIR tonight and Sunday; not much change in temperature.

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MINERS ABANDON CHECK-OFF PLAN TO END STRIKE New Contract Being Drafted and Coal Peace Is in Sight, By PAUL R. MALLON, United Prett Staff Correepondent HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. B.—The end of the anthracite strike is in sight. Both miners and operators having agreed to Governor Pinchot's proposals for a settlement, are now engaged in drafting anew contract. When it is finished, it will be submitted to a *tri-district conference at Wilkesbarre for ratification and the suspension will be declared at f.n end. The miners, in acceping Pinchot's basis of settlement, abandon their demand for the check-off and for a 20 per cent wage increase. The operators, in accepting, agreed to a 10 per cent wage increase and to recognition of the union, without the check-off. At 7:15 p. m., Friday, miners and operators resumed their joint sessions, having been brought together again through the intercession of Pinchot. They adjourned at midnight, and it was understood substantial progress in drafting anew contract had been made. Pinchot last night received a telegram of congratulation from President Coolidge. WILCOX ESTATE PROBATED Judge Bash Issues Administrator’s Papers to Driver’s Mother. Letters of administration for the SIO,OOO estate left by Howard S. Wilcox, automobile race driver, killed in a race last Tuesday at Altoona, Pa., were issued by Probate Judge Mahlon E. Bash today to Mrs. Anna Warbington, 2044 N. Meridian St., Wilcox's mother. Mrs. Warbington was also appointed guardian of two small children left by the race driver, Mrs. Wilcox, their mother, is dead. . Colored Man Killed Bv Time* Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Sept. Leroy Jackson, colored. Chicago, was killed here early today when the automobile he was driving turned over.